Anti dementors flock together

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Gather here anti dementors

God I'm in a hole this morning. I am holding back tears and I've got the horrible tense feeling in my chest and stomach that I used to have when I was pre-breakdown. I really don't want to go back on antidepressants. I was fine before this. I can't see an end in sight to this shit.

I'm a bit confused by it all. I wonder whether the government will keep them off until after the first half term. Which also coincides with the end of furlough.

But my issue is that also coincides with bloody flu season and all the winter nasties so what is the answer here?!

@SamuelVimes oh, I know that feeling. 💐 I use betablockers when it strikes and have had to get them re prescribed after ages because of my panicky feelings caused by all this.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito I know that feeling well - it's horrible. You are not alone here, we all understand. This will pass and quicker than the dementors would like. I was arguing with a friend yesterday about Scottish schools - I said I wonder if the blended learning thing will definitely go ahead if the numbers keep dropping and she was adamant that it would. So I asked if they could justify it if the numbers kept falling and I didn't get much of an answer back. Be kind to yourself. I dragged myself out of the same hole with the help of these lovely people a couple of days ago.

Delurking to send hugs to those struggling. This group is an oasis to many, myself included. We’ll get through it together X

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

God I'm in a hole this morning. I am holding back tears and I've got the horrible tense feeling in my chest and stomach that I used to have when I was pre-breakdown. I really don't want to go back on antidepressants. I was fine before this. I can't see an end in sight to this shit.

❤

I've never had any mental health problems before but that is how I have felt since yesterday.

I can feel myself spiralling away. It's scary.

🤚 here's a hand to hold.

That's all I've got right now.

I have been taking St Johns wort which is a bit like anti-ds. It seems to help a bit.

In case this helps anyone too I find this site helpful too www.blurtitout.org/resource/the-coronavirus-helpful-hub/

Mine are loving the quieter more laid back schools! Think bite size is ending soon as well, the free twinkl is going (to be fair if I want anything from there I could quite easily ask the school to download it for me anyway as a favour and they would), and I’m expecting the other providers to follow suit (we’ve used maths factor a fair bit when it was free).

If they unlocked the playgrounds and let things like dance classes and Cubs open I could cope with part time September - but it’s having to be everything to these kids and them having no interaction at all with peers that’s killing.

Dd1s friends have taken to opening Skype calls to just sit and colour in together for some interaction which is sad as hell.

Apart from

"We will learn to adapt to our new-normal"

Thanks guys. It's helping.

Domina there was talk of the gov doing some kind of clubs over the summer, not with teachers though. Have not heard anything since, though

@Mascotte

From preliminary research, it appears that dementors just "don't trust the WHO report".

Yes when the WHO updated guidance on face masks last week, the dementors were all over it. WEAR A FACE MASK, THE WHO SAYS SO! So bloody frustrated today. I am so lucky my children are in year 1 and reception. I feel so adult for those who have children with no hope of going back. Im writing to my MP and to the education Secretary today. I know it will do nothing, but I feel like I have to do something.

@Nihiloxica hugs for you as well. The spiralling feeling is horrible. I have had anxiety issues before, back on the medication which is dealing with the edges of it. Keep talking.

Two kids have died, not of covid, at Lourdes Ssecondary in Glasgow.

I was meant to be trying to be more positive about things today but I've ended up sitting in tears again, over this and feeling so angry about education generally. How many more kids need to die before this stops?

Yes, @Drivingdownthe101 that's true!

It's just hopeless to try to reason with them.

Plus they never reply to the question of "Ok, then, how do you think we should move forward?"

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

God I'm in a hole this morning. I am holding back tears and I've got the horrible tense feeling in my chest and stomach that I used to have when I was pre-breakdown. I really don't want to go back on antidepressants. I was fine before this. I can't see an end in sight to this shit.

I know that feeling. My anxiety came back just pre lockdown. I'd been fine for 5+ years before then. It will end. It has to end

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito Hold on in there, there is an end in sight. Can you try saint johns wort? It's a natural antidepressant.

@Orangeblossom78

Domina there was talk of the gov doing some kind of clubs over the summer, not with teachers though. Have not heard anything since, though

Won't happen, or it will be so heavily targeted as to be meaningless for families like us.

I saw the banner headline on the news about school plans scrapped so now have no idea what's happening and really can't face looking to find out.

I am so sick of Zoom - it's a nightmare getting the kids to engage, the delay really is hard to deal with in terms of kids with communication needs and unclear speech, the connection is crap when you've got family members working from home as well (I AM pissed off at DH's work who are using Teams lots with virtual backgrounds killing all the rest of the internet in the house so they can sit on the Simpsons couch) and ballet on zoom was just terrible. The effort was appreciated - but seriously.

I've just been to the little Sainsburys and that place is ridiculous - the staff are wearing "Stay 2m away" tabards - they step back while you scan your card and if you've touched any surface they chase you around with sanitising spray. We cannot live like this.

I need to go get my antidepressant dose tweaked - my sleep is going again which is the first sign - but getting access to the GP is so fucking hard at the moment. We STILL have no idea how much DD2 can actually SEE - her appointment that got bumped was March. Still waiting for DH's sleep monitoring for his apnea... he's not meant to drive anything other than short journeys until that's sorted out - so that's more stuff falling on me.

They're going to crow today again when the numbers do their usual Tuesday rise.

In the weeks before lockdown, when they were saying to start social distancing and over-70s staying in, ALL I saw when I went out was over-70s, mainly men, needlessly pottering about the shops. I can't help but think if they'd followed guidelines then, then kids would be in school now.

@DominaShantotto we have online ballet too. It's awful. I still let DC do it purely to try to keep the dance school open so she can do it when she goes back but the actual classes are a waste of time.

for everyone who having a shit time

Really struggling today. No idea when dd1 will be back at college, we’ve had nothing from them for weeks. She’s worried if she doesn’t pass the first year she won’t be admitted to the second year of her course. So sick of queuing. The CoOp last night looked like it did at the start of this madness. I wasn’t even going to bother queuing to get into Tesco’s. No idea what’s happening about dd2. She still has no school place and the SEN teams seem to have shut down. I can’t concentrate on anything, constant headaches, totally knackered. I ended up crying to my boss yesterday who told me to log off. Logged on this morning and nothing makes sense, it’s taking me ages to write even a basic code. I am so fucking sick of this shit. We’ve had one new case in the last couple of days. Fucking one.

I just think that the idea that 70 year olds would isolate themselves for an illness that only affected under 10s is fantasy